On Monday, Dec 1, 2003, at 11:20 US/Central, Marcello Testi wrote:
Il giorno 01/dic/03, alle 17:58, Mike Cohen ha scritto:
Standards are one thing; logic is another. You can't fix the thousands of misconfigured servers out there, but you certainly can tell a browser, "Okay, these twelve extensions, well, there's no reason to display them as text. The server's telling you it's text, but trust me, .sit is not text."
for ASP it's another story, you can't sniff by extension: what if I, web developer, want to send text/plain via a ASP script?
What if I want to send a text/plain document that starts with <html> (or, better, with one of a dozen valid doctypes) because I want to show source of a document?
Should I hope that no stupid browsers sniff wrongly?
And there are other thing an ASP (or PHP or whatever) page can "serve": images, binary documents...
Hmm, true. Ingest my previous reply with this added spice, as I missed 4 or so messages on the first perusal.
The most shining example of that would be a counter. How many little GIF images have been served by counter.pl? (back when the earth was cooling, now I guess counter.asp, counter.php, counter.py)
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